Upper Canada Village

The Upper Canada Village is a historical open air museum near Morrisburg in Ontario, Canada. Here the land is based life of about 40 buildings including mills, sawmills and workshops, presented and staged around the year 1860.

History

In 1961, the open-air museum was opened. Three years earlier, the expansion of the St. Lawrence Seaway was accompanied by the flooding of ten villages. Numerous historic buildings of this type formed the basis of the museum village as part of the St. Lawrence Seaways project. The name refers to the anglophone as Upper Canada called Ontario.

Others

Next to the museum village is a memorial to a battle of Chrysler 's Farm in 1813 in the British -American War.